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description: DR JACK KEVORKIAN T-SHIRT THE DOCTOR WHO FORCED AMERICA TO TALK ABOUT DEATH Jack Kevorkian had a talent for turning questions that medicine preferred to discuss quietly into front-page arguments. During the 1990s, the Michigan pathologist became the most notorious advocate of physician-assisted suicide in the United States, appearing in courtrooms, on television and at press conferences while insisting that competent adults suffering from serious illness should have greater control over the circumstances of their own deaths. Born in Pontiac, Michigan, in 1928 to Armenian immigrant parents, Kevorkian trained at the University of Michigan Medical School and specialised in pathology. His fascination with death long predated the controversy that eventually made him famous. During the 1950s he experimented with photographing the eyes of patients at the moment of death, work that helped earn him the nickname “Dr Death”, while later proposals involving medical research on condemned prisoners did little to soften his reputation for pursuing subjects most doctors preferred to avoid. By the late 1980s, Kevorkian had concentrated his attention on assisted dying. He designed a device he called the Thanatron, from the Greek word for death, which allowed a patient to initiate a sequence delivering anaesthetic followed by drugs intended to stop the heart. His first widely publicised case came in 1990, when Janet Adkins, a 54-year-old woman diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, travelled from Oregon to Michigan to seek his assistance. "Dying is not a crime." That sentence became closely associated with Kevorkian because it reduced his position to its bluntest possible form. His argument was not simply about suicide. He believed medicine should recognise what he regarded as an individual right to choose death in circumstances of severe and irreversible suffering, and that doctors should be permitted to assist under appropriate conditions. Critics countered that his methods, assessment…
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